David Wilson believes he’d be etched in the Giants’ record books today if things had turned out differently.

“I feel like I would have broken some records by now, like the single-season rushing record,” Wilson said. “I feel like all of that would have been broken by now. That was my plan.”

That plan was derailed when the 2012 first-round pick’s career ended abruptly during training camp for the 2014 season. Limited to just 21 games over two seasons due to spinal stenosis, Wilson was unable to turn around a Giants rushing offense that has consistently ranked among the league’s worst since 2011.

It’s highly possible that the Giants will again attempt to fix their beleaguered rushing attack this week by taking Penn State running back Saquon Barkley with the second pick in the draft. It would be the first time the Giants have used a first-round pick on a running back since Wilson, who sees Barkley as a player with the talent to fulfill his...